About the role

Role Overview

Joveo AI is hiring a Programmatic Engineer to build the real-time bidding (RTB) engine and core programmatic infrastructure for its recruitment advertising platform. You will engineer systems that participate in live ad auctions, make bid decisions in milliseconds, and optimize outcomes across billions of impressions.

Responsibilities

Build and optimize real-time bidding engines and auction decision systems
Integrate with ad exchanges/DSPs/SSPs using OpenRTB and related protocols
Develop bid pricing, pacing, and budget management algorithms
Build campaign delivery systems, including targeting, frequency capping, and optimization
Ensure reliability and latency compliance under RTB timeout constraints
Collaborate with data science on ML-driven bid optimization models

Required Skills & Qualifications

Hands-on experience building programmatic advertising and/or RTB systems
Strong backend engineering in performance-sensitive languages: Go, Java, C++, or Rust
Deep knowledge of the OpenRTB protocol and programmatic ecosystem
Experience with high-throughput, low-latency distributed systems at scale
Understanding of campaign delivery concepts: pacing, bidding strategy, optimization
Experience with real-time data pipelines such as Kafka or Flink (or similar)

Nice-to-haves

None explicitly stated beyond the required qualifications.

About Joveo Ai

Joveo AI builds an AI-first recruitment advertising platform that uses machine learning, real-time bidding, and predictive analytics to help employers make faster and fairer hiring decisions. The platform processes millions of hiring-related ad auction decisions and optimizes outcomes at large scale.